The Watergate burglary and arrests were noteworthy, but the scandal did not heat up or capture the public's attention for four months.  So, why does it matter if the Washington Post's widely reprinted burglary arrest reporting was missing key details?  What were those missing details, and were they of history-shaping effect?  And if the Washington Post knew of these details but failed to report on them, why would they want to create, rather than solve, one of the Mysteries of Watergate?
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It is not an overstatement to say that American history's most lauded reporting is the Washington Post's Watergate journalism.  There is also no doubt as to its earthshaking impact, both impelling the country's only removal of a president, and also inspiring a new brand of journalism and journalists.  How is it explained, then, that so many salient facts of the Watergate story were missed, and an opposite impression consistently given?  There are big questions for the Washington Post to answer in this podcast series, questions posed in this episode and expounded upon in future episodes as we continue our deep dive into the Mysteries of Watergate.

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This second part of our discussion of The Narrative explains how otherwise odd, idiosyncratic evidence from The Mysteries of Watergate fits snugly into the revisionist narrative. This evidence, to the extent disclosed and analyzed correctly,  would have explicated the motives of major actors, but in fact was not disclosed or well explained by conventional treatments.

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In this series we have shown solid proof solving specific, discrete Mysteries of Watergate.  But humans understand morality through narratives: there is always a  moral to the story.  In this episode we will add to our series by showing how our specific proofs cohere in a satisfying overall Narrative, explaining what really happened in our country’s most important political scandal.
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The character Deep Throat, who we now know was Mark Felt, the Associate Director of the FBI at the time of Watergate,  is the most intriguing of Watergate characters regarding the journalism so crucial to understanding the scandal.  This episode explores the motive and intent of this source when he meets with Woodward in their first all-night parking garage meeting, and thereafter.  Why did he do it? Was he out to “get” Nixon or some other end. And did the Washington Post and Bob Woodward capture the essence of this most misunderstood man?  Analyzing the work of Mark Felt, this clever, principled man helps us begin our unpacking of  the journalism so integral to the scandal, and in so doing gets us started on a journey of understanding what is good for our democracy, and what is not, about today’s “investigative” journalism.
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We have presented in the previous episodes solid evidence of hidden motives, veiled intentions and outright deceit, involving an intriguing cast of characters in the Watergate scandal.  In this episode we will show  how these strands of evidence of skullduggery are sensibly woven together to support a coherent narrative, out of what appears to be on an initial close examination a wildly indecipherable muddle.
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G. Gordon Liddy’s salience comes from his unmatched centrality to all major factions participating in this odd drama.   He worked with the White House,  the CIA
 Plumbers, the Cuban Watergate burglars, John Dean and Jeb Magruder, even John Mitchell and Attorney General Richard Kleindeinst.  Moreover, while perhaps duped, Liddy is brutally honest and in his own strange way highly principled.  His recounting of his involvement in Watergate did not emerge until the statute of limitations passed, and he gives the lie to many other accounts, to a great degree with innocence and crazed naïveté.  You cannot make up this character and with Liddy's story, we solve yet another of The Mysteries of Watergate.
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If Martinez, Russell and Stevens form a triple play of CIA involvement in prostitute taping, Lee R. Pennington is a guilty plea to criminal coverup of deep CIA participation.  This episode is packed with facts not contained in any major work on Watergate, facts verified by none other than the CIA. This episode should leave the listener with no doubt about the truth of the narrative we put forth to solve the Mysteries of Watergate.
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Watergate can only be explained by its target. Yet for the past 49 years the Washington Post and historians have not told us where in the office the burglars were, and what key evidence one burglar tried to get rid of.  And who exactly was Eugenio Martinez?  Would his identity tell us anything?  And what role did mysterious cop Carl Shoffler play?  Tune in for a wild ride with The Mysteries of Watergate.
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Lou  Russell is the most intriguing figure in a scandal full of intrigue.  Perhaps much like Michael Stevens, his potential role could not have been spun by either the Washington Post or the Senate Watergate Committee in a way that avoided the CIA, and therefore the public has heard nothing about him.  But Russell’s participation, if proven, implicates far more than the CIA.  For those skeptically wishing to cling to the conventional Watergate narrative, Lou Russell is a mystery who cannot be explained.
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